 A more dreadful road cannot be imagined. I was obliged to hire two men at one place to support my chaise from overturning. Let me persuade all travellers to avoid this terrible country, which must either dislocate their bones with broken pavements, or...  A Book about Travelling, Past and Present - עמוד 94מאת Thomas Allan Croal - 1877 - 608 דפיםתצוגה מלאה - מידע על ספר זה
 | Sir Henry Parnell - 1833 - 474 דפים
...impossible to describe these infernal roads in terms adequate to their deserts. To Newcastle. Turnpike. — A more dreadful road cannot be imagined. I was obliged...so abounding with towns, trade, and manufactures." * Mr. Chambers says, in his estimate, " Turnpikes which we saw first introduced soon after the Restoration... | |
 | Henry Brooke Parnell (1st baron Congleton.) - 1833 - 488 דפים
...to describe these infernal roads in terms adequate to their deserts. To Nevcrfiftif. Turnpike, — A more dreadful road cannot be imagined. I was obliged...hire two men at one place to support my chaise from ores-turning. Let me persuade all travellers to avoid this terrible country, which must either dislocate... | |
 | Sir Henry Parnell - 1833 - 508 דפים
...to support my chaise from Let me persuade all travellers to c 4 overturning. 24 A TREATISE ON ROADS. avoid this terrible country, which must either dislocate their bones with broken pavements, or buiy them in muddy sand. " It is only bad management that can occasion such very miserable roads, in... | |
 | Sir Henry Parnell - 1838 - 512 דפים
...impossible to describe these infernal roads in terms adequate to their deserts. To Newcastle. Turnpike. — A more dreadful road cannot be imagined. I was obliged...so abounding with towns, trade, and manufactures."* Mr. Chambers says, in his estimate, " Turnpikes which we saw first introduced soon after the Restoration... | |
 | 1838 - 492 דפים
...three carts, broken down, in these eighteen miles of execrable memory. To Newcastle. Turnpike. — A more dreadful road cannot be imagined. I was obliged...country, which must either dislocate their bones, or bury them in muddy sand." It might be easy to multiply quotations in proof of the state of travelling... | |
 | 1850 - 602 דפים
...break-down, dislocating road, ruts cut through a pavement must be.' " He says'of a road near Newcastle, ' A more dreadful road cannot be imagined. I was obliged...support my chaise from overturning. Let me persuade all travelers to avoid this terrible country, which must either dislocate their bones with broken pavements,... | |
 | Dionysius Lardner - 1850 - 572 דפים
...parts of the north of England better. He says of a road near Newcastle, now superseded by a railway, " A more dreadful road cannot be imagined. I was obliged...so abounding with towns, trade, and manufactures." CHAP, n.] THE PBOGRESS OF TRANSPORT. 35 Now, it so happens that the precise ground over which Mr. Yonng... | |
 | Dionysius Lardner - 1850 - 460 דפים
...obliged to hire two men atone place to support my chaise from overturning. Let me persuade all travelers to avoid this terrible country, which must either...so abounding with towns, trade, and manufactures." Now it so happens that the precise ground over which Mr. Young traveled in this manner less than eighty... | |
 | Dionysius Lardner - 1850 - 588 דפים
...parts of the north of England better. He says of a road near Newcastle, now superseded by a railway, " A more dreadful road cannot be imagined. I was obliged...all travellers to avoid this terrible country, which most either dislocate their bones with broken pavements, or bury them in muddy sand. It is only bad... | |
 | 1850 - 602 דפים
...dislocating road, ruts cut through a pavement must be.' " He says of а гожГ near Newcastle, ' Л more dreadful road cannot be imagined. I was obliged...support my chaise from overturning. Let me persuade all travelers to avoid this terrible country, which mu¿t cither dislocate their bones with broken pavements,... | |
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